Pox and Need Some Advice

PeekItUp · Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 13

My Pox Deck:

Lands---
18 Swamps
4 Mishra's Factory

Creatures---
4 Abyssal Gatekeeper

Spells---
4 The Rack
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Duress
4 Sinkhole
4 Chimeric Idol
4 Dark Ritual
4 Pox
3 Cursed Scroll
3 Infest

Sideboard---
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Engineered Plague
3 Leyline of the Void
4 Sphere of Resistance

I've had a bit of success, but I can never beat this BW (forgot the name) deck with Angel, ghostly prison, etc. My problem is whenever I play them they drop a first/second turn chalice for 1, basically saying "YOU GOT WTFPWNED!" to 15 of my cards, 7 being finishers.

Amoeba- · Joined: 28 Apr 2006 Posts: 69

Possibly your talking about Angel Stax?

VacancyMan · Joined: 01 May 2005 Posts: 308

I have played Pox in Legacy for a long time, which surprising success, but I haven't played in a while. This is my latest list:

// NAME: Pox

// Lands
19 [RAV] Swamp (1)
4 [TE] Wasteland

// Creatures
2 [MM] Nether Spirit

// Spells
3 [TE] Cursed Scroll
4 [TE] Diabolic Edict
4 [4E] The Rack
4 [U] Sinkhole
4 [MM] Dark Ritual
4 [7E] Duress
4 [AT] Hymn to Tourach
4 [5E] Pox
4 [PY] Chimeric Idol

// Sideboard
SB: 4 [7E] Engineered Plague
SB: 4 [MR] Sun Droplet
SB: 3 [GP] Leyline of the Void
SB: 4 [LG] Chains of Mephistopheles

The most important change for you I think would be to cut the Gatekeepers for Nether Spirit. Nether Spirit, even in a format with StP, often is simply unfair. I would also suggest Diabolic Edict over Infest, but that's a personal and metagame decision so I won't pressure you there. I don't like the Factories mostly because I enjoy playing Wasteland as mana denial cards 9-12 and I also like having no Wasteland targets of my own.

Pox is one of my favorite decks and I'm happy that I'm not the only one that still loves it.

TybudX · Joined: 11 Aug 2005 Posts: 57

Has either of you tried using some sort of Scrying Sheets/Snow land/Top combo in yoiur Pox builds?

I know there isn't that much room for change, but I mean, really... why wait to set up the perfect Pox, when you can just draw out of it?

Lets try (hypothetically, no testing at all):

Mana
11 Snow Covered Swamps
4 Mishra's Factory
4 Wasteland
4 Scrying Sheets

Win
3 Nether Spirit
4 Phyrexian Ironfoot
3 Cursed Scroll

Disruption
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Duress
4 Sinkhole
4 Pox

Other
4 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Dark Ritual
3 Infest

Anyways, I'd love to play a deck like this in Legacy, but what does it really do? What can it answer, and what questions does it pose? Is the strategy superior, or is there a better, more efficient way to accomplish the same thing?

Colossus · Joined: 10 Nov 2004 Posts: 395

wow.

Dosn't even know what it does and just automatically assumes adding Standard jank into a tried and true legacy deck will make it better.

If you've got the mana to activate Scrying Sheets and play things like phyrexian ironfoot every turn, than your playing the wrong version of pox.

TybudX · Joined: 11 Aug 2005 Posts: 57

So answer the question then tough guy. Or maybe you you'd like ot keep acting like a big man on an internet message board with the condescending tone. Whatever gets you off. I'm guessing it's not girls.

clavio · Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Posts: 11

Ty, you are an idiot. You post with absoloutley no knowledge of this deck and then you got mad at colossus for commenting on it? You totally made the worst build of pox in the history of mankind. Congradulations. Go play unhinged.

Vacancy: How has the rack been working for you? I usually don't play more than 3 in non hypnotic specter builds.

I like wasteland over factory. Factory gets owned by wasteland while wasteland is, well, wasteland.

PeekItUp · Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 13

I agree with Clavio about wasteland. Mostly because once i get Chimeric Idol out, factory becomes useless Wasteland fodder.

And the Idea about snow lands/top is horrible.

PeekItUp · Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 13

By the way, I just had an awesome play with Funeral Charm...
Against goblins, I have Funeral Charm/Gatekeeper in hand during his turn, and a cursed scroll out. His vial has 4 counters on it, and he plays matron and gets ringleader. He taps vial and in response, I funeral charm him. Charm resolves, he discards ringleader (only card), then vial resolves for NOTHING. He leaves the game at end of turn when I cursed scroll his piledriver.